[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 203 (Monday, December 11, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5895]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         TRIBUTE TO KIM RIGGINS

  Mr. OSSOFF. Mr. President, I rise to commend an extraordinary 
Georgian for her lifetime of service to the State of Georgia and to our 
entire country.
  This month, Ms. Kim Riggins will retire as a congressional liaison in 
the Atlanta VA Regional Office's Congressional Unit, where she works to 
ensure Georgia's veterans and their families can access the benefits 
they have earned, and to coordinate that work with Georgia's 
congressional offices.
  In 1979, Ms. Riggins enlisted in U.S. Navy, and she served on Active 
Duty from October 1979 until October 1983. While stationed at Fort 
Myers, VA, she met and married Charles Riggins, a soldier, in 1983. The 
couple had two sons, Charles Jr., an educator, and Terron, Active-Duty 
Army. Both are married and captains in the National Guard and Active 
Army, respectively.
  Upon her discharge from Active Duty, Ms. Riggins joined the Navy 
Reserves and remained in the Reserves until 1994. In June 1994, Charles 
and Kim Riggins moved to Georgia. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, she 
was recalled to Active Duty and served from February 2002 until October 
2003.
  Ms. Riggins retired from the U.S. Naval Reserves in 2005, and in May 
2008, she graduated magna cum laude from Clayton State University, 
earning a bachelor's degree in accounting with a minor in finance.
  She began working at the Atlanta VA in August 2009 and was hired 
under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act--ARRA--of 2009 as a 
veterans service representative, VSR. Ms. Riggins was part of the pre-
development team from 2009 to 2012, where she was selected by the 
veterans service center Manager--VSCM--to be detailed to congressionals 
on the public contact team, where she has been serving Georgia's 
veterans for the past 11 years.
  For her lifetime of service to our Nation in the U.S. Navy, the U.S. 
Navy Reserves, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, I commend 
Kim Riggins and congratulate her and her entire family on her 
retirement.

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